English language

How to pronounce perkiness in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Synonyms archness, impertinence, pertness, sauciness
Type of fun, playfulness
Type Words
Synonyms buoyancy
Type of blitheness, cheerfulness
Derivation perky

Examples of perkiness

perkiness
Johnson is the reigning world champion on floor, a bundle of perkiness and power.
From the toledoblade.com
Unless her perkiness wears down viewers, she also could get to the final three.
From the jsonline.com
Perkiness is required, and one of the reasons we are a shopping team of two.
From the timesunion.com
That said, the performance's perkiness began to flag in the last movement.
From the dispatch.com
Granted, this was a room full of people following a career path paved with perkiness.
From the washingtonpost.com
They are cast for their generic perkiness or their unthreatening ethnicity.
From the time.com
She can summon a dreadful perkiness, but is mostly stunned, lethargic.
From the guardian.co.uk
Post-feminism says forget the dogma, just take pleasure in the perkiness of the colour.
From the independent.co.uk
Even it it's just to shake your fist in anger at the perkiness of it all.
From the tv.uk.msn.com
More examples
  • Buoyancy: cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
  • Impertinence: inappropriate playfulness
  • (perky) buoyant: characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness; "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor"; "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little widow in her 70s"
  • The condition of being perky
  • (perkier) comparative form of perky: more perky
  • (perky) Lively or enthusiastic; Standing upright; firm
  • (Perky) "It recovers quickly from a Status Change."
  • (Perky) Mrs. Wood''s dog, and Pal''s mother.
  • (Perky) adj. Used to describe a spirited, happy preppy girl or object.